Manny

“When the Cathedral bell tolled just after dark, the Mexican population of Santa Fe fell upon their knees, and all American Catholics as well. Many others who did not kneel prayed in their hearts. Eusabio and the Tesuque boys went quietly away to tell their people; and the next morning the old Archbishop lay before the high altar in the church he had built.”
― Willa Cather

“Not what thou art, nor what thou hast been, beholdeth God with His merciful eyes, but what thou wouldst be.”
― Rumer Godden, In This House of Brede

“Aren’t we blessed, we who love books?”
― Frances Maureen Richardson

“When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.”
― St. Jerome